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Pastoral center in northern Myanmar among latest Catholic sites bombed by governing military junta - Biweekly Newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond %

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(OSV News) — A Catholic pastoral center in northern Myanmar is among the latest Christian sites bombed by the country’s governing military junta. According to a March 5 report by Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization, the pastoral center, which was on the grounds of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Nan Hlaing, located in the northern Diocese of Banmaw, was targeted and destroyed by two aerial bombs. Jesuit Father Wilbert Mir…

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